(A bit late in posting this, should have dropped it on August 20 instead of Sept 1, but it predates my next posts and makes thing a bit more complete.)

Oh, woe is me. The last week was horrific. The honest-to-god flu got me. I was down and out for the entire week. The only happy bit was the fact my parents came to visit the weekend when I was just getting going with my illness. So, I had a good visit with them and then settled into letting the virus run through my system for the rest of the week.

However, new week, new Daryl. Taking a moment to review life finds me at a good point. We have a house and all of the paperwork is complete. Now we only wait until Sept 18 to close. Then some painting and we can get our stuff, currently in storage, delivered. Still a lot of work to do, but a few weeks of job searching and getting some things done in between.

Toronto is cool at the moment. Two weeks ago we were experiencing some serious heat. That settled off a bit last week and gave way to a cooling trend with a low % chance of rain all week. The sign outside the coffee shop shows 22 Celsius/72 Fahrenheit and the skies are completely overcast, threatening rain. Not cool enough for a jacket, but it feels that way after the recent heat.

Now, all of the above isn’t major news, so why blog it? Well, today is the first day of back to work. Now that we aren’t rushing around every evening looking at houses, life is a bit more relaxed. I’m building a schedule, something I always benefit from, starting with a bit of writing in the coffee shop each morning. One cup of tea and a chance to be around people instead of stuck in the apartment doing research/making phone calls and only getting out to run errands.

Then home to have lunch and do “home” things and watch my soaps. Don’t snicker, I’m talking a solid few hours of CSI:NY, Law and Order and ending with Without a Trace on the back end before running more errands or getting out a bit more. And I don’t actually do it every day. Most importantly, it gives me a bit of a structured schedule which I always benefit from instead of access to a near-infinite variety of day planning.

Vacation it may be, but I have a pretty big list of things to get done and a finite amount of time to dedicate. Time to get started…